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My name is Toby Pinder, Rails and PHP developer by trade. Think of this site as a vault for some of my experiments (or non-pretentious words to that effect). Particular passion projects of mine include Ludum Dare games, data driven and statistical analysis tools, and digital and virtual economies and currencies.

For Ludum Dare 29 I created "Quantum Tunnelling". The asteroid miners of the future have had one too many accidents with mining lasers and space dust. So they've come up with a far more sensible option - using the power of quantum to teleport non risk-averse employees into the asteroids themselves!

I made a game for the Ludum Dare 27 called "Astronomical Odds". Ludum Dare is a 48 hour game development competition. As you can imagine, those are strict time constraints! I entered both LD21 and LD26 with some half-baked, abstract ideas implemented on the server side for the most part, but I was happy with my JS focused result, which boasted a surprisingly polished combat system (even if the enemy AI is... janky),